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  • September 2008
  • Article

Firm Heterogeneity and Credit Risk Diversification

By: Samuel G. Hanson, M. Hashem Pesaran and Til Schuermann
This paper examines the impact of neglected heterogeneity on credit risk. We show that neglecting heterogeneity in firm returns and/or default thresholds leads to under estimation of expected losses (EL), and its effect on portfolio risk is ambiguous. Once EL is... View Details
Keywords: Volatility; Credit; Investment Return; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Diversification; Complexity; United States
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  • 28 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

right to freedom applied always and everywhere. Policymakers understand the international financial system very differently, however, in the first decade of a new century. Caution toward full capital mobility now prevails within the... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
  • 21 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

wealth with them. His parents’ primary assets were their talents, energies, and aspirations to have a better life for themselves and their children. So how did Brin reach a position to cofound Google in 1998? The US educational system... View Details
Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

too long. Three years is better because the world changes so rapidly. So every three years, we basically reinvent ourselves, or try to. My brother calls it a process of institutionalizing change. You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention. We’ve used... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective is to study the joint determination of these three features (beliefs, punitiveness, and economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Short Takes

Reinhardt writes that for a company to be sustainable, it must have a strategy or development path that maintains an undiminished level of net assets. He argues that if the prices in the firm's accounting systems are the correct ones, the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • November 2010 (Revised June 2015)
  • Teaching Note

B Lab: Building a New Sector of the Economy, B Lab: Can it Scale Business as a Force for Good?

By: Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for 411047 and 415080 View Details
Keywords: Change; Problems and Challenges; Welfare or Wellbeing; Value; Emerging Markets; Management Practices and Processes; Balance and Stability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 16 Dec 2010
  • News

The Emergent Arab World

took place at HBS, with panels on entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, media and technology, and Iraq, among other topics. A panel on finance in the MENA region, which hundreds of HBS alumni call home, was moderated by HBS Associate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government
  • November 2005 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Commercialization at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (A)

A large and successful not-for-profit medical research institute must decide strategy to commercialize its discoveries. In the process, it must balance multiple conflicting demands from its stakeholders. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Public Sector; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Health Industry
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  • Web

Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement

challenges—ones that made me realize the universal complexities of delivering care. These early experiences planted a seed in me: a deep desire to improve healthcare systems and make a meaningful impact. That desire led me to study... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Supporting Global Understanding, Locally

economic and social consequences when the financial system fails.” Sabanci Dincer’s gift will provide financial aid for international students as well as funding for faculty research that furthers global... View Details
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

server or set of servers to store transactions and also avoiding any single party that can ban certain participants or certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing payment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

savings, and insurance products. Together, WWB and the leaders in its network work with policymakers to create financial systems for the needy majority in their regions. Barry joined WWB as president in 1990 after fifteen years in top... View Details
  • Student-Profile

Ryann Noe

close, and to develop her own lens through which to view these topics. “Organizational systems have a mixture of simplicity and complexity that’s always compelled me,” she says. “There are fundamental constraints, but there is also room... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

The Case for Studying Financial History

the point of the book was to explain where this extraordinary system came from and to explain it component by component so that readers could understand the financial system as the product of history, and as... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • Web

What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Healthcare Prize What Others Are Saying What Others Are Saying What Others Are Saying “When someone like Michael Porter tells companies that sustainability and related social and environmental issues will affect the future of the... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
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  • 27 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

plans to improve their relationships but fail to follow them due to their inability to put themselves in their partners' shoes. I have watched thoughtful managers planning new incentive schemes to motivate their employees, only to find the employees focused more on... View Details
Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino
  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

joining HBS. Cal Brooks (MBA 2022, Section A), Summer Internship: Commercialization Strategy Intern at Malta Malta is building a new type of electro-thermal energy storage system that can collect and store energy from any source (i.e.... View Details